Firstly, Leto is the daughter of the Titans Koya and Phoebe, and the place where the titans live is the North (Diodorus of Sicily directly indicates that the homeland of Leto is Hyperborea).
Secondly, Leto is not just the name of the ancient Greek demigoddess, but also the original Russian word “leto (summer)”, meaning the time of year (hence, “leta” is a synonym for time itself). The root of “let” underlies a whole family of words and concepts with the meaning “letati (fly)”. And again the analogy with hyperboreans, as a flying people, begs.
The Leto titanide itself was also flying, when, pursued by a jealous Hero, it rushed from the borders of Hyperborea all over the world to seek refuge where it could resolve itself from the burden. She found such a place on the island of Delos, where the Sanctuary of Apollo subsequently arose, where the Hyperboreans constantly sent their gifts. Flying, of course, were the children of Leto (Latona) – Artemis and Apollo. And Pindar directly calls the Hyperboreans “servants of Apollo.”
Swan is a symbol of Hyperborea. The sea deity Forky – the son of Gaia – Earth and the prototype of the Russian Sea Tsar – was married to the titanide Leto.
Their six daughters, born within the Hyperborean borders, were initially venerated as beautiful Swan Maids (only much later, for ideological reasons, they were turned into ugly monsters – gray and gorgon).
The Gorgons were discredited according to the same pattern and, apparently, for the same reasons as attributing opposite signs and negative meanings during the breakdown of the common Indo-Iranian pantheon into separate religious systems (this happened after the migration of the Aryans from North to South), when Ahuras (light divine beings) become Devas and Asuras – evil demons and bloodthirsty werewolves.
This is a worldwide tradition inherent in all times, nations, religions, without exception.
Summing up, it can be argued that the edge of the sunny Kola – the Kola Peninsula – is the Hyperborean homeland of Solntsebog Apollo, who, for his canonization in the Olympic pantheon, has long retained ordinary human features.
Hyperborean Russia
There is no doubt that the ancient Hyperborea is directly related to the ancient history of Russia, and the Russian people and their language are directly connected with the legendary Hyperborean country that disappeared or disappeared into the bowels of the ocean and land.
It is no accident that Nostradamus in his “Centuries” referred to the Russians only as “the Hyperborean people.”
The refrain of Russian fairy tales about the Sunflower Kingdom, which is located far away, also represents memories of ancient times when our ancestors came into contact with the Hyperboreans and were themselves Hyperboreans.
There are more detailed descriptions of the Sunflower Kingdom. So, in an epic tale from the collection of P. N. Rybnikov, it is told how a hero on a flying wooden eagle (a hint of all the same flying Hyperboreans) flew to the Sunflower Kingdom:
He flew into the kingdom under the sun,
Climbing off an eagle airplane
And he began to lap around the kingdom,
Walk along the Sunflower.
In this in the kingdom of Sunflower
I became a tower – the top gold
The circle of this tower was a white courtyard
About that gate about twelve
About those watchmen about strict…
Other evidence recorded by many authors, including N. M. Karamzin, A. N. Afanasyev and A. A. Korinfsky, relates to the legendary Lukomorye.
It turns out that this is not a fabulous country, but the ancient Northern Kingdom, where people fall into hibernation for two months in order to wake up to the return of the spring Sun. It is clear that the Sunflower kingdom is not only the kingdom of the polar Sun, but also the kingdom of polar ice, the memory of which is encoded in folk symbols.
Ancestors knew about the country beyond the Arctic Circle, where a long night reigns and a never-ending storm rages. The modern Russian word “buria (storm)” has Aryan roots: bhurati in ancient Indian meant “moving,” “shuddering,” “floundering.” But in ancient times, the “buria (storm)” was pronounced and written as a “bouria”. So he and Borey – the north wind.
Another synonym is known for “hurricane wind”, one root with the word “buria” – “bora”: the Turks, Italians, and Russians call the hurricane at sea. One cannot but recall the ancient Greek name of the Dnieper – Borisfen.
The winged black-bearded god Boreas was considered the Hellenes to be the son of Astraeus (Starry Sky) and Eos (Morning Dawn). According to Diodorus of Sicily, his descendants were the lords of the main city of Hyperborea and the keepers of a spherical temple – the sanctuary of Apollo. It was here that the Hellenic Solntsebog flew every 19 years, visiting the places where he was once born. Such temples with domes and bells were seen and described by Arab merchants-travelers on the territory of present-day Russia long before the introduction of Christianity here… The Russian North, which once experienced the consequences of a global natural disaster, also holds many secrets.
An unprecedented climatic catastrophe associated with a sharp cooling and caused by the displacement of the earth’s axis and, consequently, the poles, forced the forefathers of modern peoples to move south, to warmer lands. Many sacred books, written and oral texts contain a description of this “doomsday”, including one cherished Russian “spiritual verse”, miraculously survived to our days:
Dark darkness befell us
The sun is fading bright
Do not reveal your light
On the faces of the earth;
Before evening in the afternoon
The darkness came darkly…
Bright moon, refracted into darkness;
Stars in heaven
Fade out your light…
Change, the sea, your nature…
Come, winter, cruel,
Kill the grapes all-green…
A lot of water has flowed since then. Entire nations and states have disappeared from the face of the earth. Most have forgotten about the ancient ancestral home – the polar center of all languages and cultures. But the Russians did not forget. For they belong to that unique ethno cultural phenomenon, which never left the original Eurasian territories, where it lived from the very sources of mankind.
Eastern Europe as the ancestral home of the Indo-Europeans
(Brief abstract)
The problem of localization of the ancestral homeland of Indo-European peoples has been facing science for more than 200 years. Assumed at different times as an ancestral home: India, the slopes of the Himalayas, Central Asia, Asian steppes, Mesopotamia, the Near or Middle East, the Armenian Highlands, territories from Western France to the Urals, the territory from the Rhine to the Don, the Black Sea-Caspian steppes, the steppes from the Rhine to Hindu Kush, the areas between the Mediterranean and Altai, Western Europe – at present, for one reason or another, most researchers rejected.
As far back as the 19th century, Spiegel proposed the hypothesis of the East European (between 45° N and 69° N) ancestral homeland of the Indo-Europeans.
In the middle of our century, the idea of an Eastern European ancestral home was expressed by A. Scherer. At present, these sciences are forcing to reconsider the traditional historical paradigm that claims that Eastern